Announcements
PS/IS 338 at 510 Coney Island Avenue, rendering by Purcell Architects (Courtesy of Dept. of Education)The new, long-awaited Kensington public school is now open for middle school applicants throughout District 22. In addition to the standard enrollment period (which opened in November), M.S. 890 is open for
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Arts & Culture
(Photo by Rebecca Meek)With a neighborhood as diverse and talented as Kensington, a school music festival is rarely just an evening of amateurs. This year, the two-day P.S. 130 Music Festival will feature a rare, interactive performance by Transcendence featuring award winning artists Jaimeo Brown and Chris Sholar
Feature
Rendering for a nine-story condo building at 88-92 Linden Boulevard near Bedford Avenue. (Image via via ROART)It’s impossible not to be aware of development happening across Brooklyn — the vanished buildings, boarded-up construction sites, truck traffic and sleek towers that seem to come out of nowhere. We decided to
Kids & Family
(Photo via Save Sunflower website [https://sites.google.com/view/savesunflower/who-to-call?authuser=0])The abrupt closure of a beloved Windsor Terrace daycare facility has left 30 families without childcare, 10 workers without employment, and both collectively owed more than $100,000 by its owners. On Friday, January 20, parents
community
Hot on the heels of President Trump’s signing executive orders [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/refugees-immigrants-wall-trump.html] to expand efforts to deport immigrants living in the country illegally, bar refugees from entering the United States, and build a wall along Mexico’s border, community leaders,
Neighbors
New York Daily News Front Page on January 26, 2017Mary Tyler Moore died [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html] yesterday. She was 80. We lost both an amazing actress and a staunch Brooklynite, but don’t take our word for it. When there was a
Events
Voice your opinion and listen to your neighbors at the January meeting of the 66 Precinct Council Meeting on Thursday, January 19, 7 pm at Community Board 12’s office, 5910 13th Avenue in Boro Park. The NYPD 66th Precinct, which covers Kensington, Boro Park, Ocean Parkway, Dahill Triangle and
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Police & Fire
175 Ocean Parkway fire on January 3. (Photo by neighbor Liam Brown)[Update 1/16 3pm: Neighbors launched a GoFundMe page for the victims of this fire. Donate here [https://www.gofundme.com/fund175/].] A roaring blaze tore through a century-old apartment building on Ocean Parkway in Kensington last night,
Announcements
Bake sale in November outside of PS 230. (Photo via Alexandra Como Saghir / Facebook)Looking for ways to give back to your community? Donating to a worthy cause doesn’t get more hyper-local than this. Kensington’s P.S. 230 parents are raising money [https://www.gofundme.com/ps230-class-of-2017] to
News
909a Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Demolition has started this week on the single-story stucco shed at the corner of Cortelyou Road and East 9th Street, a relic of “Eddy’s shoemaker” & watch repair shop. The stone hut was built as a 5-car garage in 1923, and